snowcapk Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 Who else is worried about disappointing their advisor? *raises hand* The fact that I made spelling and grammar mistakes on an essay sure doesn't make me feel better:( ^^this. I have good statistics, a pub in the pipeline and my recommenders are academy members, so it's just up to me to sell myself. And I did make spelling/grammar mistakes. And I did accept a dare to include the word "testes" in my proposal...on yeast. "Ballsy," I know.
beaches90 Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 ^^this. I have good statistics, a pub in the pipeline and my recommenders are academy members, so it's just up to me to sell myself. And I did make spelling/grammar mistakes. And I did accept a dare to include the word "testes" in my proposal...on yeast. "Ballsy," I know. I tried to keep the fact that I applied to fellowships hush hush...so that nobody in the department (besides my advisor) would know. Sad? Yes. Necessary for my sanity? You betcha.
blah2009 Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 To Snowcap: Psh...you have a NDSEG already. No complaining..=).
iluv2fly1 Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 i am already in grad school. choose wisely..=), and probably independently of the NSF if you can. I'm in grad school now. The question is do I switch for a Ph.D. Better school, with fellowship, but I'm afraid switching will take too many years.
bioangele Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 Seriously, if there's another I GOT IT post you should include at least a partial screen shot....so many fakers, who does that for fun???
MrGradStudent Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 Hi bioangele, nice to see you again. Just out of curiosity, why biochemistry instead of anything else? Most people I've come across who study bio and chem end up going to med school. Unless you want to sell your soul to a big pharmaceutical company, biochem grad school seems like a masochistic way of life. wouldn't you agree?
bioangele Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 Hi bioangele, nice to see you again. Just out of curiosity, why biochemistry instead of anything else? Most people I've come across who study bio and chem end up going to med school. Unless you want to sell your soul to a big pharmaceutical company, biochem grad school seems like a masochistic way of life. wouldn't you agree? Hahah, that's one way to look at it! I'm also in the Chemical Biology program here, so we push that buzz-phrase "interface of chemistry and biology"! I always wonder about the people who make distinctions between Chemical Biology and Biological Chemistry... I'm into x-ray crystallography and detailed studies of molecular mechanism...i.e. what is the chemistry that allows proteins to execute their functions and interact? I always think of biochem as the field for those of us who don't like thinking on a whole cell or organismal level - give me a pet protein and I'm a happy camper!
DrBones Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 Yeah, I'm thinking that this maintenance means nothing because it shuts down the entirety of fastlane - not just the GRFP site. Why would they shut the entire site down just to post results on one part of the site? I think we're reading too much into it.
DrBones Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 Not for bioangele, she's the kind of girl who's not satisfied without some pain. :twisted: This seems a little unnecessary...
bioangele Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 P.S. As for med school...wouldn't touch that with a 10 foot pole (pretty sure most of us would agree here, hah). Someone has to discover all the stuff that doctors implement. Plus I hear the MCAT is a REAL bit of masochism. Now if the NSF would give me a bit of funding, I could start curing cancer...*sigh*
cosby49 Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 Hey MrGradStudent, how many people are in your Hand Lotion Sciences program? I've heard good things about it, and I am thinking of transferring (from biochemistry).
jkpate Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 I'm into x-ray crystallography and detailed studies of molecular mechanism...i.e. what is the chemistry that allows proteins to execute their functions and interact? I always think of biochem as the field for those of us who don't like thinking on a whole cell or organismal level - give me a pet protein and I'm a happy camper! I've heard rumors that a model from computational linguistics (my field), Probabilistic Context Free Grammars, are supposed to be good models of protein folding. Have you heard about this? Is it something that biologists take seriously? I've only ever heard about this from other computational linguists, and I'd be interested to know if it's something biologists actually use or if it's just CLers tooting their own horns. =)
vice Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 We will know it is real when we see a flood of people posting both rejections and acceptances. I wonder why the fakers don't go with the "awww I didn't get it," and a fake rejection rather than the less believable "got it."
bioangele Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 I've heard rumors that a model from computational linguistics (my field), Probabilistic Context Free Grammars, are supposed to be good models of protein folding. Have you heard about this? Is it something that biologists take seriously? I've only ever heard about this from other computational linguists, and I'd be interested to know if it's something biologists actually use or if it's just CLers tooting their own horns. =) Haven't heard, but it could be something cool. Last I was up on stuff was Vijay Pande at Stanford mining out modeling to home PCs, haha. And CASP of course.
cosby49 Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 anyone else want to revise their guesses for when winners will be announced? I say April 15th.
DrBones Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 I'm still optimistic that tomorrow will hold some results.
powerpete7 Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 why else would fastlane go down? any ideas anyone?
MrGradStudent Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 Hahah, that's one way to look at it! I'm also in the Chemical Biology program here, so we push that buzz-phrase "interface of chemistry and biology"! I always wonder about the people who make distinctions between Chemical Biology and Biological Chemistry... I'm into x-ray crystallography and detailed studies of molecular mechanism...i.e. what is the chemistry that allows proteins to execute their functions and interact? I always think of biochem as the field for those of us who don't like thinking on a whole cell or organismal level - give me a pet protein and I'm a happy camper! That's cool. Not really my kind of field, but I can see how having proteins as pets could give your life meaning. By the way, have you considered gamma ray crystallography? you can resolve smaller features and perhaps discover subatomic interactions that could be meaningful to the origins and functionality of proteins! Maybe like humans, proteins evolved from fish and through survival of the fittest became the dominant species in biological habitats.
buttsssssss Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 why else would fastlane go down? any ideas anyone? i'm the guy with the 10 lines of python (WOW) monitoring the site. it goes down a LOT though admittedly this downtime is surprising and surprisingly long. THAT SAID, common sense argues they will NOT post the results now. perhaps the tech people, who do work at this time, have been told to do something which perhaps relates to the scores, but the people actually running this show do NOT want to be working at this hour and they would not release results now when they could do it tomorrow morning. ie go find something better to do
cosby49 Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 proteins evolved from fish? cool! What about RNA world hypothesis?
sam45 Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 i'm the guy with the 10 lines of python (WOW) monitoring the site. it goes down a LOT though admittedly this downtime is surprising and surprisingly long. THAT SAID, common sense argues they will NOT post the results now. perhaps the tech people, who do work at this time, have been told to do something which perhaps relates to the scores, but the people actually running this show do NOT want to be working at this hour and they would not release results now when they could do it tomorrow morning. ie go find something better to do Thanks buttsssssss
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